1952, ISBN: 9f9b66e1ffc869cf3e898268402a1a13

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Macmillan and Co., Limited], A very good copy of this volume from the Macmillan Pocket Edition. The blue cloth binding clean and only lightly worn, wit… More...

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Macmillan and Co., Limited], A very good copy of this volume from the Macmillan Pocket Edition. The blue cloth binding clean and only lightly worn, with strong gilt lettering and decoration to the spine and a blind stamped representation of Ganesh to the front board. The binding is square, uncracked, and tight with sharp unbumped corners. The contents are clean and bright and there are no ownership inscriptions or other markings of any kind. A handsome copy of one of Kipling's best loved works. "Stalky & Co. is a book published in 1899 (following serialisation in the Windsor Magazine) by Rudyard Kipling, about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of linked short stories in format, with some information about the charismatic Stalky character in later life. The character Beetle, one of the main trio, is partly based on Kipling himself. Stalky is based on Lionel Dunsterville, M'Turk is based on George Charles Beresford, Mr King is based on William Carr Crofts. The school, which is referred to as the College or the Coll. is based on the United Services College in Devon which Kipling attended. The stories have elements of revenge, the macabre (dead cats), bullying and violence, and hints about sex, making them far from childish or idealised, unlike the typical school story. The critic Edmund Wilson, in The Wound and the Bow, was both shocked and uncomprehending about them. For example, Beetle pokes fun at an earlier, more earnest, boys' book, Eric, or, Little by Little, thus flaunting his more worldly outlook".<

1910, ISBN: 9f9b66e1ffc869cf3e898268402a1a13

London: Macmillan and Co, 1910. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. Reissue. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red cloth with gilt text and elephant head decoration on fro… More...

London: Macmillan and Co, 1910. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. Reissue. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red cloth with gilt text and elephant head decoration on front cover. Book sound lower front corner bumped. Neat inscription on front endpaper paper. Stories of Stalky in late 19th C India.., Macmillan and Co, 1910, 3<

1919, ISBN: 9f9b66e1ffc869cf3e898268402a1a13

Gebraucht, schlechter Zustand, [PU: Macmillan and co ltd], No jacket, light scuffs to extremities. Spine has slight lean. Previous owner name on FEP. Gentle tanning and foxing.

1960, ISBN: 9f9b66e1ffc869cf3e898268402a1a13

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 8.21], [PU: Macmillan], 1960. Macmillan. Hard Cover. Book-Good; owner inscription.

1957, ISBN: 9f9b66e1ffc869cf3e898268402a1a13

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 8.21], [PU: Macmillan], 1957. Macmillan. Hard Cover. Book-VG.